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Go to my publications page for downloadable manuscripts.
Or to my latest talk page for recent work.
Or ask me about specific figures (william.s.kessler@noaa.gov).

My "do ask and do tell" policy: Please do not copy without asking! (or at least telling) --- BK

Pacific circulation

SW Pacific Circulation:

• SW PACIFIC CIRCULATION (NOUMEA and later)
• TOGA XBT DATA (WP TRACK)
• EDDIES IN THE CORAL SEA

  Glider Work:

• GLIDER MISSION #1
• GLIDERS ACROSS THE SOLOMON SEA
• MINDANAO CURRENT TESTS

  EAC:

• THE GODFREY (1989) ISLAND RULE CALCULATION WITH ERS WINDS
• EAC WORK WITH ACOM MODEL (HOBART)    AND WITH A LINEAR ROSSBY MODEL
• INDIAN OCEAN ERS WIND CLIMATOLOGIES
• IX1 XBT LINE

  Equatorial work:

• SVERDRUP BALANCE CALCULATIONS WITH ERS WINDS
• SVERDRUP/SEC WORK WITH THE G/C MODEL
• WORK WITH THE JOHNSON CTD/ADCP DATA
• SUBTROPICAL COUNTERCURRENT WORK (WEST PACIFIC XBTs)
• MERIDIONAL STREAMFUNCTIONS (SnJ)
• Johnson et al equatorial section of u and T (pdf)
• KAIMIMOANA EQUATOR-CROSSING SADCP SECTIONS

PACS (East Pacific) work

• FAREAST FIGURE LIST
• ETP FIGURE LIST (for ETP review article)
• ETP MEAN CIRCULATION (for JPO 02)
• TEHUANTEPECKERS, PAPAGAYOS, etc
• SVERDRUP CALCULATION PAGE (C.R.Dome)
• PLOTS FROM THE ENHANCED TAO MOORING AT 0°, 110°W (For Cronin-Kessler 02)
• QUIKSCAT PAGE
• Interannual EOFs of FSU Winds and BMRC Z20
• East Pacific solar radiation and clouds:   SHUKLA/SCHNEIDER DISCUSSION  
  Time series at Equator     15°S-15°N (Clouds and SST)   Solar harmonics    (Compare cloud effect)
• Data location pages: EPIC CTD FIGURE LIST     PACS FIGURE LIST     PERU UPWELLING XBTS

PUMP pages

• Main (public) PUMP page
• Work page
• TMI equatorial SST (and other stuff) page
• Renellys' page
• 2°N,140°W

El Niño stuff

• My El Niño FAQ page

• ENSO papers:
  • Kessler. W.S. (2002) Is ENSO a cycle or a series of events?
  • Cronin, M.F. and W.S. Kessler (2002) Near surface conditions at 0°,110°W during the onset of the 1997-98 El Niño.
  • Kessler, W.S. (2001) EOF representations of the Madden-Julian Oscillation and its connection with ENSO.
  • Kessler, W.S. and R. Kleeman (2000) Rectification of the Madden-Julian Oscillation into the ENSO cycle.
  • Kessler, W.S. and M.J. McPhaden (1995a) Oceanic equatorial waves and the 1991-93 El Niño.
  • Kessler, W.S. and M.J. McPhaden (1995b) The 1991-93 El Niño in the central Pacific.
  • Kessler, W.S. (1991) Can reflected extra-equatorial Rossby waves drive ENSO?
  • Harrison, D.E., W.S. Kessler, and B.S. Giese (1989) Ocean circulation model hindcasts of the 1982-83 El Niño: thermal variability along the ship-of-opportunity tracks.
  • Kessler, W.S., and B.A. Taft (1987) Dynamic heights and zonal geostrophic transports in the central tropical Pacific during 1979-84.

• FIGURES ON THE 2002-03 El NINO

• Phase orbits: Time series of SST and Warm Water Volume       Resulting phase orbits
  Updates 1999-2009:   Using Nino3     Using Nino3.4

• SOI: 
  • SOI 1950-2005    SOI 1882-2001   Tahiti and Darwin records   SOI (T-D) and T+D  SOI and Cold tongue Index
  • Puget Sound winter T and P vs the SOI

• Schematic diagrams:   Normal   Onset   Peak   
• A composite El Niño

• Did off-equatorial Rossby waves precede the El Nino of 1997?   (Looking at TOPEX time series)
  • (x,t) plots: 9.5°N     9.5°S     9.5°S, 9.5°N and the equator (6 month running mean)
  • Sequential maps: From 94-95 to the start of 97-98     Through 97-98     30-day averages Nov 97-Aug 98

• ENSO extratropical impacts:  
  Schematic ENSO jetstream anomalies (NOAA/CPC)     Rainfall anomalies in the Pacific during El Niño and La Niña

• Assorted pages of ENSO-ish figures made for diverse purposes over the years ....
  • VARIETIES OF THE MJO EXPERIENCE ... EMPHASIZING VARIETY
  • A LIST OF VARIOUS EL NINO THINGS. VERY MISCELLANEOUS!
  • GEOSTROPHIC CURRENTS FOUND COMBINING XBT PLUS TOPEX
  • RELATIONS BETWEEN CLOUDS AND OLR
  • SECULAR CHANGE IN THE FSU WINDS
  • (A FEW EARLY) TAO OBSERVATIONS OF THE EL NINO (1996-mid 97)
  • JIN 97 DISCHARGE-RECHARGE MODES
  • Why does El Niño advance eastward? (pdf)
  • PDO figures and links

Salinity, etc

• ZONAL AND MERIDIONAL SECTIONS OF THE MEAN TS RELATION IN THE PACIFIC
• THE SALINITY MAXIMUM ALONG 165E (For JPO 99)    (Extend time series with later data)
• NEAR-SURFACE GRADIENTS IN THE COARE REGION
• THE KESSLER AND TAFT (1987) LINEAR TS SCHEME
• LEVITUS SALINITY and MSF

Model Output and Comparisons

• THE GRAB BAG: Miscellaneous model things ...
• FIGURES FROM MCCREARY'S BEAMS MODEL
• YANAI WAVE STUDY FIGURES (For Moore et al 98)
• DOES THE COLD TONGUE ADVECT WEST FROM THE PERU COAST?
• SOME COMPARISONS OF MODEL FIELDS WITH DIFFERENT TIMESTEPS AND GRIDS.
• RESULTS FORCING THE G/C MODEL WITH IDEALIZED TEHUANTEPECKER WINDS
• FIGURES FOR LEW R AND DAKE C
• FIGURES FOR RAGU M AND AMY C
• COMPARISONS at 140W
• RESULTS USING RAGU'S VERSION OF THE G/C MODEL

TAO data figures

• FIGURE LIST FOR TAO U and T at 110°W and 140°W (1980s vs 90s)
• TROPICAL INSTABILITY WAVE VARIABILITY OBSERVED BY TAO BUOYS
• PLOTS FROM THE ENHANCED TAO MOORING AT 0°, 110°W (Hi-res MTRs)
• TAO STATISTICS FOR LATENT HEAT FLUX CALCULATIONS
• Mean and annual amplitude of TAO mixed layer depth on the equator
• Annual cycle of equatorial mixed layer depth observed by TAO buoys
• Mixed layer depth at 0° and 8°N, 110°W
• Temperature anomalies at 0°, 165°E
• Mean v at 0°, 140°W and 110°W (compare ADCP vs VACM)
• E Pacific Ri and Rossby model (Hobart)

Uncategorizable!

• Nothing is uncategorizable. You just need to make more categories!

OK, call it leftovers!

• Great circle paths and distances from Seattle
• Distance from the nearest coastline
• My air and sea voyages   Europe detail   Pacific detail   (Orthographic projection)   On a rotating globe: 45°N  Equator
• A collection of rotating globes
• Generals scans
• Fraction of the ocean within latitude bands
• Relief map of Washington (from USGS)
• Lincoln's Gettysburg Address
• Sayings to live by

• Degrees of freedom needed for correlations to be significantly different from zero at the 95% level: For large DOF  For small DOF

	Dr. William S. Kessler NOAA / PMEL / OCRD 7600 Sand Point Way NE Seattle WA 98115 USA	Tel:   206-526-6221 Fax:  206-526-6744 E-mail:  William.S.Kessler@noaa.gov
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